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2021 Predictions

Some of my 2021 predictions (mostly sports-related, but some radio thrown in):

- COVID activity drops rapidly in the first few months of 2021. Shows that normally tape in front of a studio audience will start bringing a small audience in toward the end of this season in preparation for full audiences for the 2021-22 season

- MLB will be the first league to welcome paying fans to stadiums in many large markets (New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis; most other large markets have had NFL teams with paying fans)

- The Toronto Raptors play the entire 2020-21 season in Tampa Bay. The Blue Jays start the 2021 season as a traveling team before playing a back-loaded home schedule in Toronto

- At least five NFL playoff games (in this upcoming playoffs) are either played in empty stadiums or are moved to neutral sites (with paying fans) so the NFL can get any ticket revenue it can get. The NFL is VERY lucky SBLV is in Tampa and not in Los Angeles

- WrestleMania 2021 gets moved out of Los Angeles and to Tampa, which was supposed to host WrestleMania in 2020. Los Angeles will get WrestleMania in either 2022 or 2023

- One of the proposed Final Four hosts in the 2023-2026 timeframe will voluntarily move their Final Four hosting to 2027 so Atlanta's new stadium can get their Final Four sooner (ATL was scheduled to host the 2020 Final Four)

- Total attendance for FBS college football in week 1 of the 2021 season will exceed the total for the entire 2020 season

- 95.7 the Game in San Francisco flips back to country (it was a country station prior to becoming The Game)

- At least one 100kW equivalent FM on the commercial band in a rated market is sold to EMF or an NPR member

- The FM auction that was supposed to be held in April 2020 finally gets held at some point in 2021, with 107.9 Sacramento setting a record for the highest winning bid. If said auction is held early in the year, at least one of the auction winners is able to get on the air by Christmas 2021
 
ftballfan said:
Some of my 2021 predictions (mostly sports-related, but some radio thrown in):

- WrestleMania 2021 gets moved out of Los Angeles and to Tampa, which was supposed to host WrestleMania in 2020. Los Angeles will get WrestleMania in either 2022 or 2023
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It already has. Tampa is hosting Wrestlemania 37 in late March
 
zeebre12 said:
Can see Fusion and FM being the next cable channels to get the chop after El Rey Network.
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Eventually many 'low-rent' cable networks will go off the air. As more of the younger demographic goes to Netflix, Hulu and Disney+, cable and satellite continue to lose viewers to high bills and long contracts. I wouldn't be surprised to see channels like American Heroes, Lifetime Real Women and even Logo either leave the spectrum or turn into other networks.
 
ftballfan said:
Some of my 2021 predictions (mostly sports-related, but some radio thrown in):

- COVID activity drops rapidly in the first few months of 2021. Shows that normally tape in front of a studio audience will start bringing a small audience in toward the end of this season in preparation for full audiences for the 2021-22 season
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I liked your post as this is what I think will happen. Moderna getting vaccine approval is huge for this prediction, as I think our state will get more doses of Moderna than the Pfizer one, and eventually it will be expanded into the general public. Pressure will come from a lot of industries if restrictions continue into the spring. I couldn't imagine being an audience coordinator right now, not being able to do much since early March. Or a crew member for concerts or festivals.
I have a really good chance, I think, of sitting in a nearly-full audience at the 2021 Ellensburg Rodeo! I live here now and it's basically a 'rite of passage' of being an Ellensburg resident ;)
 
Another prediction. Not necessarily TV related but it again does concern the NFL.

Either shortly after the 2020 regular season ends on Jan. 3, 2021, or sometime during the year, at least one of these things happen in the NFL:

1. At least one of either Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, or Drew Brees announces his retirement. Either immediately after the 2020 season or announces the 2021 season will be his last.

2. Patriots fire Bill Bellichek. After the bad post-Brady season this year followed by another disastrous season in 2021.
 
ftballfan said:
- The Toronto Raptors play the entire 2020-21 season in Tampa Bay. The Blue Jays start the 2021 season as a traveling team before playing a back-loaded home schedule in Toronto
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Will the NHL be able to somehow solve its big Canada problem or will there be no 2020-21 season?
 
CTListener said:
Will the NHL be able to somehow solve its big Canada problem or will there be no 2020-21 season?
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They just approved a schedule.
www.espn.com

NHL, players agree to 56-game regular season featuring all-divisional play

The NHL and NHLPA approved a 56-game regular season beginning Jan. 13. The season will feature only intradivisional play until the semifinals of the playoffs.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
Final details on where the seven Canadian teams will play are still pending agreements with health officials.

The plan is for all-divisional play and a temporary, one-year realignment in which the teams based in Canada play one another all season. The league is allowing for the possibility of playing games at neutral sites if needed.
 
Don CT said:
They just approved a schedule.
www.espn.com

NHL, players agree to 56-game regular season featuring all-divisional play

The NHL and NHLPA approved a 56-game regular season beginning Jan. 13. The season will feature only intradivisional play until the semifinals of the playoffs.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
Final details on where the seven Canadian teams will play are still pending agreements with health officials.

The plan is for all-divisional play and a temporary, one-year realignment in which the teams based in Canada play one another all season. The league is allowing for the possibility of playing games at neutral sites if needed.
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Ugh, so each team plays the same half-dozen or so teams all season long? Borrrr-innng, even worse than MLB's plan, which at least included interleague games. Hopefully, restrictions ease up sometime before the playoffs, although most folks seem to think fall 2021 is the earliest realistic expectation for return to something like normal -- and even that could be in doubt if all the skeptics who say they won't take any vaccine stick to their announced intentions.
 
CTListener said:
Ugh, so each team plays the same half-dozen or so teams all season long? Borrrr-innng, even worse than MLB's plan, which at least included interleague games. Hopefully, restrictions ease up sometime before the playoffs, although most folks seem to think fall 2021 is the earliest realistic expectation for return to something like normal -- and even that could be in doubt if all the skeptics who say they won't take any vaccine stick to their announced intentions.
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He's talking to you, Jenny McCarthy.
 
Don CT said:
They just approved a schedule.
www.espn.com

NHL, players agree to 56-game regular season featuring all-divisional play

The NHL and NHLPA approved a 56-game regular season beginning Jan. 13. The season will feature only intradivisional play until the semifinals of the playoffs.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
Final details on where the seven Canadian teams will play are still pending agreements with health officials.

The plan is for all-divisional play and a temporary, one-year realignment in which the teams based in Canada play one another all season. The league is allowing for the possibility of playing games at neutral sites if needed.
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i can see 2 to 3 of the Canadian teams being moved to San Antonio, Houston and Austin for one year, with the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Toyota Center in Houston and Erwin Center in Austin if they can actually be able to host hockey games. it also could be possible for a NHL from Canada to move their games to Fort Worth's new Dickie's Arena and possibly a team in Oklahoma City's Ford Center, New Orleans' Smoothie King Arena, Kansas City's T-Mobile Center (was Sprint Center until the Sprint/T-Mobile merger was complete and Sprint was no more) or even the State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
i can see 2 to 3 of the Canadian teams being moved to San Antonio, Houston and Austin for one year, with the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Toyota Center in Houston and Erwin Center in Austin if they can actually be able to host hockey games. it also could be possible for a NHL from Canada to move their games to Fort Worth's new Dickie's Arena and possibly a team in Oklahoma City's Ford Center, New Orleans' Smoothie King Arena, Kansas City's T-Mobile Center (was Sprint Center until the Sprint/T-Mobile merger was complete and Sprint was no more) or even the State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
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The exodus of clubs from virus-terrified Canada to virus-downplaying "red states" would almost certainly mean fans in the seats and in line at concession stands, a revenue source that most U.S. teams will go without -- unless they, too, find a way to get out of locked-down California, ultra-cautious Philadelphia and Boston, etc. and into friendly Southern arenas as well. Could that happen, or are the teams in COVID-cautious states stuck there in their empty arenas for the duration?

Not to sound too skeptical, but I don't recall the 10 NLCS and World Series games played before about 10,000 spectators each in Arlington, Texas, being linked to coronavirus outbreaks among attendees and their contacts in the outside world, nor the NFL games being played before limited gatherings in Texas, Florida, Missouri, etc. So why not open all NHL (and NBA) arenas to, say, 3,000 fans per game?
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
i can see 2 to 3 of the Canadian teams being moved to San Antonio, Houston and Austin for one year, with the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Toyota Center in Houston and Erwin Center in Austin if they can actually be able to host hockey games. it also could be possible for a NHL from Canada to move their games to Fort Worth's new Dickie's Arena and possibly a team in Oklahoma City's Ford Center, New Orleans' Smoothie King Arena, Kansas City's T-Mobile Center (was Sprint Center until the Sprint/T-Mobile merger was complete and Sprint was no more) or even the State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
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Sacromento,Golden State,New Orleans,Memphis,Portland,Utah,Orlando,Indiana,Cleveland,Milwaukee,Charlotte,Brooklyn,Houston all have NBA Teams so Arena could be available if not playing at same time at home.
Oilers maybe play in Jacksonville.
 
Mgomrjsurf said:
Sacromento,Golden State,New Orleans,Memphis,Portland,Utah,Orlando,Indiana,Cleveland,Milwaukee,Charlotte,Brooklyn,Houston all have NBA Teams so Arena could be available if not playing at same time at home.
Oilers maybe play in Jacksonville.
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I have a temporary home suggestion for the Toronto Raptors. This may be crazy, but since one of the Raptors' major stars, Fred VanVleet, is from Rockford, IL--how about Rockford being the temporary Raptors' home for the upcoming season--even if they play the games at their 6,200 capacity BMO Harris Bank Center?

IMO due to VanVleet there are more Raptors fans than Bulls (sad to say) in the Rockford area (while the Bulls are continuing to lose and not looking to regain their Jordan-era glory anytime soon). Might as well move them to Rockford for the year.
 
CTListener said:
So why not open all NHL (and NBA) arenas to, say, 3,000 fans per game?
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How about 25% capacity w/ plenty of the social distancing and Covid measures? For example, the Boston Bruins play at T.D. Garden, 19,580 is max capacity. 25% is 4,895. Easy to block off every couple seats...and get some revenue going again. But I'm sure Gov. Baker would stop them right away...
 
nickp said:
Mike Joy will announce his retirement Steve Kornacki should be the new host of Jeopardy Jessica Rosenworcel for fcc chairman The Voice FINALLY gets canceled Jordan Fisher and Paige VanZant replacing Tyra Banks next season on Dancing with the Stars and 2021 Summer Olympics opening ceremony the highest ratings of any TV show in the history of the world
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My guess is that Adam Alexander replaces Mike Joy, with Dave Rieff moving over to handle the Xifintly races.
 
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